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author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2009-11-14 10:31:14 +0000 |
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committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2009-11-14 10:31:14 +0000 |
commit | 774f4db9fcc4c0278bca97d67a9adb37faf77311 (patch) | |
tree | b20d336542a657b464f446c37e84e1ecef61d2ab /man/man1 | |
parent | 7f97bf08932547e91a68fb24d9ceeb3098f31b7d (diff) |
Add option to disable justification (Debian bug #440047).
* src/man.c (options, parse_opt): Accept --no-justification. Reset
corresponding variable with -D.
(disable_justification): New function.
(display): Append disable_justification to the decompressor
pipeline if --no-justification is used.
* man/man1/man.man1 (SYNOPSIS, Controlling formatted output):
Document --no-justification.
* NEWS: Document this.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man1')
-rw-r--r-- | man/man1/man.man1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/man.man1 b/man/man1/man.man1 index 1b6bb7fd..24cb9e17 100644 --- a/man/man1/man.man1 +++ b/man/man1/man.man1 @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ .RB [\| \-E .IR encoding \|] .RB [\| \-\-no\-hyphenation \|] +.RB [\| \-\-no\-justification \|] .RB [\| \-p .IR string \|] .RB [\| \-t \|] @@ -1006,6 +1007,20 @@ documentation instead; for instance, you can put "\e%" inside a word to indicate that it may be hyphenated at that point, or put "\e%" at the start of a word to prevent it from being hyphenated. .TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .B \-\-no\-justification +Normally, +.B nroff +will automatically justify text to both margins. +This option disables full justification, leaving justified only to the left +margin, sometimes called "ragged-right" text. + +If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent +.B nroff +from justifying certain paragraphs, do not use this option, but consult the +.B nroff +documentation instead; for instance, you can use the ".na", ".nf", ".fi", +and ".ad" requests to temporarily disable adjusting and filling. +.TP .BI \-p\ string ,\ \-\-preprocessor= string Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before .B nroff |